xv, 521 pages : 24 cm

This anthology presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Wide-ranging in its scope, the collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians and practitioners

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-512) and index

The nineteenth century in Europe -- On the daguerreotype / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- A lady photographer who never photographs men / Alice Hughes -- Annals of my glass house / Julia Margaret Cameron -- Photography during the July Monarchy 1830-1848 / Gisele Freund -- The camera agains the Paris commune / Gen Doy -- Extending the grand tour / Maria Morris Hambourg -- Tacing Nadar / Rosalind Krauss -- New visions -- the avant-gardes and after -- Germany: the Weimar Republic / Ute Eskildsen -- Photomontage / Varvara Stepanova -- The supremacy of the message -- Dada / Dawn Ades -- A hundred years of photography / Lucia Moholy -- I worked with Man Ray / Lee Miller -- The photographic coniditions of surrealism / Rosalind Kraus -- A mutable mirror: Claude Cahun / Therese Lichtenstein -- The armed vision disarmed -- radical formalism from weapon to style / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Distant voices: fashion and portraiture in the studio in the inter-war years -- Photography, 1914 / Olive Edis -- Exhibitions and commercial work / Madame Yevonde -- In pursuit of perfection / Dorothy Dahl-Wolfe -- Pictures and stories: documentary and reportage in North America -- Life begins / Maragret Bourke-White -- Looking at Life / Carol Squires -- The assignment I'll never forget / Dorothea Lange -- A crisis in the intimate / Andrea Fisher -- One time, one place / Eudora Welty -- The photo league / Anne Tucker -- Documentary Photography / Elizabeth McCausland -- The politics of photography / Jo Spence -- The seige of St Malo / Lee Miller -- Star wars: the photographer as polemicist at Vietnam / Jan Zita Grover -- History Lessons -- Photography at the crossroads / Bernice Abbott -- What shall we tell the children? Photography and its text (books) / Mary Warner Marien -- Crowned with torns: creative camera 1965-1978 / Val Williams -- On photography / Susan Sontag -- On photographers -- What becomes a legend most: the short, the sad career of Diane Arbus / Catherine Lord -- Tina Modotti: letters to Edward Weston / Amy Rule -- On photography / Tina Modotti -- Re-reading Edward Weston -- feminism, photography, and psychoanalysis / Roberta McGrath -- Ansel Adams: the eloquent light / Nancy Newhall -- Good intentions / Ingrid Sischy -- Witkin's others / Cynthia Chris -- The Other Side / Nan Goldin -- Time exposure: the photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum / Lauren Sedofsky -- Cindy Sherman: burning down the house / Jan Avgikos -- Postmodernisms and the politics of looking -- Winning the game when the rules have been changed: art photography and postmodernism / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Two types of photography criticism locatd in relation to Lynn Silverman's Series / Meaghan Morris -- Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: an inquiry into the cultural landscape of photography / Deborah Bright -- Dykes in context: some problems in minority representation / Jan Zita Grover -- Dialogue with spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin / Laura Mulvey -- Between frames / Susan Butler -- The pleaseure of the phototext / Jane Gallop -- Interview: fetishism of black-and-white and the vulgarity of color / Karen Knorr -- Decolonising the image -- Partial recall / Lucy Lippard -- The unveiled: Algerian women / Carole Naggar -- Through Indian eyes / Judith Mara Gutman -- Essential differences, photographs of Mexican women / Coco Fusco -- A strategy of appearances -- the Australian bicentenary / Anne-Marie Willis -- Showing our faces -- a century of black women photographed / Jewelle Gomez -- Memories and fiction -- Gateway to a labyrinth / Liz Heron -- Isak Dinesen and photo/graphic recollection / Susan H. Aiken -- Remembrance / Annettte Kuhn

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